dealer in The Hague, The Netherlands

A blog to celebrate twenty-five years of buying and selling art, applied art, antiques, art nouveau, art deco, design, vintage and collectables, with memories and highlights from the collection in the past.

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Penningen, the dutch word for Medallic Art or Art Medals, a part of the collection of Delta 98 Den Haag

My collection. Art medals. How did that start ?

About 20 years ago a colleague, Mr. Doesberg, offered us a medal, it was beautiful art deco, by a famous dutch designer and the subject was theatre. I was blown away, all I loved was within that little gem.

Always I just wanted to collect only dutch medals, made by well known dutch designers, artists and sculptors, starting at 1900 up to the present. Just to keep in an area I can learn and know about a lot.

Sometimes though an extremely beautiful piece can make me decide to go abroad

silver medal by Louis Oscar Roty, Death of Sadi Carnot, assassinated president of France 1894

There are so many wonderful art nouveau medals from France, Belgium and Germany, designed by great sculptors, for example Roty, Charpentier, Dupuis, Dubois, Coudray, Chaplain, Pillet, etc.

After the art nouveau period the art deco began, and to my opion, the most beautiful, powerful, topdesigned art deco medal ever made is American:

designed in 1933, by Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) for the 25th anniversary of General Motors: